ROLLS EXPANDS WITH NEW FACILITY.

ROLLS CORPORATION broke ground on November 22 for its new facility in Murray, Utah. Rolls President Marilyn DiFrancesco headed the event, and she was joined by Daniel C. Snarr, mayor of Murray; David DiFrancesco, Rolls executive vice-president; Justin Allen, production manager; Eric Mangum, marketing director; and other Rolls employees.

"We're very excited about the new facility," said President DiFrancesco "We've been in business just over ten years now. We make over 90 different audio electronic products, and we need the room." Rolls's present facility is being eliminated by the ASARCO cleanup on land now owned by Intermountain Health Care.

"Right now they're tearing everything down all around us," said Mangum. "Only four companies left in the Behner Complex: Rolls, Flotron, IT Chrome Plating, and Heuter Mill and Cabinet." He added, "We're also sick of having muddy cars," referring to the constant watering of the dirt road leading to the Rolls factory.

The new Rolls facility, a 13,000-square-foot manufacturing marvel, will be located at 5966 South 350 West in Murray. It will contain state-of-the-art flow soldering equipment, subassembly stations, and final testing stations with precision audio measuring devices. The offices will each be connected via proprietary computer programs written by David DiFrancesco, the company's engineer, who commented, "We'll all have high-speed access to the Internet as well as our own main-frame computer."

Rolls currently operates in two shifts. It produces audio signal processors, amplifiers, mixers, signal sources, and interface accessories. The company has two divisions, RFX and Bellari. RFX manufactures effects pedals mainly for guitarists, and a line of MIDI controllers. Bellari makes strictly tube-based electronic equipment such as microphone preamplifiers, signal processors, impedance-matching direct boxes, and multi-processors.